House roll call 6 · 51st Congress · Jan 15, 1890
To amend H.R. 4539, (26 stat 54, app. 4-11-90), a bill supplying deficiencies caused by defalcations created in the office of the sergeant-at-arms, so as to per
On Jan 15, 1890, the House voted 136–136 (HR 4539). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 40–99, Democrats 97–37. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 77 members voted against their own party.
During the 51st Congress (1889–1890), Benjamin Harrison was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 136
- No
- 136
- Did not vote
- 77
- Date
- Jan 15, 1890
By party
- Democrats97 yes · 37 no · 33 didn’t vote
- Republicans40 yes · 99 no · 43 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Richard Henry Clarke D-AL voted no
- William Calvin Oates D-AL voted no
- John Hollis Bankhead D-AL voted no
- William Henderson Cate D-AR voted no
- Thomas Chipman Mcrae D-AR voted no
- Marion Biggs D-CA voted no
- Joseph Mckenna R-CA voted yes
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL voted no
- Robert Bullock D-FL voted no
- James Henderson Blount D-GA voted no
- Walter Ingalls Hayes D-IA voted no
- David Bremner Henderson R-IA voted yes
- Joseph Henry Sweney R-IA voted yes
- John Fletcher Lacey R-IA voted yes
- James Patton Flick R-IA voted yes
- Frank Lawler D-IL voted no
- Scott Wike D-IL voted no
- Joseph Bonaparte Cheadle R-IN voted yes
- William Dale Owen R-IN voted yes
- John Alexander Anderson R-KS voted yes
- James Bennett Mccreary D-KY voted no
- Andrew Price D-LA voted no
- Charles Jahleal Boatner D-LA voted no
- Joseph Henry O'Neil D-MA voted no
- Henry Stockbridge Jr. R-MD voted yes
- Louis Emory Mccomas R-MD voted yes
- John Logan Chipman D-MI voted no
- Edward Payson Allen R-MI voted yes
- James O'Donnell R-MI voted yes
- Julius Caesar Burrows R-MI voted yes
- Mark Spencer Brewer R-MI voted yes
- Aaron Thomas Bliss R-MI voted yes
- John Lind R-MN voted yes
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO voted no
- William Joel Stone D-MO voted no
- James Bright Morgan D-MS voted no
- Thomas Clendinen Catchings D-MS voted no
- Clarke Lewis D-MS voted no
- Thomas Henry Carter R-MT voted yes
- William James Connell R-NE voted yes
- Samuel Fowler D-NJ voted no
- Felix Campbell D-NY voted no
- Roswell Pettibone Flower D-NY voted no
- Moses Dunning Stivers R-NY voted yes
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY voted yes
- John Sanford R-NY voted yes
- James Schoolcraft Sherman R-NY voted yes
- John Alexander Caldwell R-OH voted yes
- Samuel S. Yoder D-OH voted no
- Henry Lee Morey R-OH voted yes
- William Elisha Haynes D-OH voted no
- Joseph Hodson Outhwaite D-OH voted no
- William Mckinley Jr. R-OH voted yes
- Martin Luther Smyser R-OH voted yes
- Theodore Elijah Burton R-OH voted yes
- Robert Morris Yardley R-PA voted yes
- Edwin Sylvanus Osborne R-PA voted yes
- Henry Clay Mccormick R-PA voted yes
- Louis Evans Atkinson R-PA voted yes
- Edward Scull R-PA voted yes
- Samuel Alfred Craig R-PA voted yes
- Joseph Warren Ray R-PA voted yes
- James Sproull Cothran D-SC voted no
- William Hayne Perry D-SC voted no
- Alfred Alexander Taylor R-TN voted yes
- Leonidas Campbell Houk R-TN voted yes
- Henry Clay Evans R-TN voted yes
- James Daniel Richardson D-TN voted no
- William Harrison Martin D-TX voted no
- David Browning Culberson D-TX voted no
- Silas Hare D-TX voted no
- William Henry Crain D-TX voted no
- Joseph Draper Sayers D-TX voted no
- Thomas Henry Bayly Browne R-VA voted yes
- John Lockwood Wilson R-WA voted yes
- Robert Marion La Follette R-WI voted yes
- John Overton Pendleton D-WV voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL
- Louis Washington Turpin D-AL
- James Edward Cobb D-AL
- William Henry Forney D-AL
- Joseph Wheeler D-AL
- Clifton Rodes Breckinridge D-AR
- Samuel West Peel D-AR
- Joseph Mckenna R-CA
- Thomas Jefferson Clunie D-CA
- John Brown Penington D-DE
- Rufus Ezekiel Lester D-GA
- Henry Gray Turner D-GA
- Charles Frederick Crisp D-GA
- Thomas Wingfield Grimes D-GA
- John David Stewart D-GA
- Judson Claudius Clements D-GA
- Henry Hull Carlton D-GA
- Allen Daniel Candler D-GA
- David Bremner Henderson R-IA
- Joseph Henry Sweney R-IA
- John Fletcher Lacey R-IA
- James Patton Flick R-IA
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- George Washington Fithian D-IL
- Edward Lane D-IL
- William St. John Forman D-IL
- James Robert Williams D-IL
- William Fletcher Parrett D-IN
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- George William Cooper D-IN
- William Dallas Bynum D-IN
- Elijah Voorhees Brookshire D-IN
- Joseph Bonaparte Cheadle R-IN
- William Dale Owen R-IN
- Augustus Newton Martin D-IN
- Charles A. O. Mcclellan D-IN
- Benjamin Franklin Shively D-IN
- John Alexander Anderson R-KS
- William Johnson Stone D-KY
- William Thomas Ellis D-KY
- Isaac Herschel Goodnight D-KY
- Alexander Brooks Montgomery D-KY
- Asher Graham Caruth D-KY
- William Campbell Preston Breckinridge D-KY
- Thomas Hanson Paynter D-KY
- Newton Crain Blanchard D-LA
- Samuel Matthews Robertson D-LA
- John Forrester Andrew D-MA
- Herman Stump D-MD
- Henry Stockbridge Jr. R-MD
- Louis Emory Mccomas R-MD
- Edward Payson Allen R-MI
- James O'Donnell R-MI
- Julius Caesar Burrows R-MI
- Mark Spencer Brewer R-MI
- Justin Rice Whiting D-MI
- Aaron Thomas Bliss R-MI
- John Lind R-MN
- William Henry Hatch D-MO
- Charles Harley Mansur D-MO
- Alexander Monroe Dockery D-MO
- Robert Patterson Clark Wilson D-MO
- John Charles Tarsney D-MO
- John Taddeus Heard D-MO
- Richard Henry Norton D-MO
- James Peter Walker D-MO
- Chapman Levy Anderson D-MS
- Thomas Ringland Stockdale D-MS
- Charles Edward Hooker D-MS
- Thomas Henry Carter R-MT
- Thomas Gregory Skinner D-NC
- Charles Washington Mcclammy D-NC
- Benjamin Hickman Bunn D-NC
- Alfred Rowland D-NC
- William Henry Harrison Cowles D-NC
- William James Connell R-NE
- Jacob Augustus Geissenhainer D-NJ
- John Michael Clancy D-NY
- Charles Henry Turner D-NY
- Edward John Dunphy D-NY
- John Henry Mccarthy D-NY
- Amos Jay Cummings D-NY
- Francis Barretto Spinola D-NY
- John Quinn D-NY
- Ashbel Parmelee Fitch D-NY
- William Griggs Stahlnecker D-NY
- Moses Dunning Stivers R-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- Charles Tracey D-NY
- John Sanford R-NY
- James Schoolcraft Sherman R-NY
- John McClure Wiley D-NY
- John Alexander Caldwell R-OH
- Henry Lee Morey R-OH
- James W. Owens D-OH
- William Mckinley Jr. R-OH
- Martin Luther Smyser R-OH
- Theodore Elijah Burton R-OH
- Robert Morris Yardley R-PA
- William Mutchler D-PA
- David B. Brunner D-PA
- Edwin Sylvanus Osborne R-PA
- James Bernard Reilly D-PA
- Henry Clay Mccormick R-PA
- Louis Evans Atkinson R-PA
- Edward Scull R-PA
- Samuel Alfred Craig R-PA
- Joseph Warren Ray R-PA
- James Kerr D-PA
- George Dionysius Tillman D-SC
- John James Hemphill D-SC
- George William Dargan D-SC
- William Elliott D-SC
- Alfred Alexander Taylor R-TN
- Leonidas Campbell Houk R-TN
- Henry Clay Evans R-TN
- Benton Mcmillin D-TN
- Joseph Edwin Washington D-TN
- Benjamin Augustine Enloe D-TN
- Rice Alexander Pierce D-TN
- Charles Stewart D-TX
- Constantine Buckley Kilgore D-TX
- Joseph (Jo) Abbott D-TX
- Littleton Wilde Moore D-TX
- Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham D-TX
- Thomas Henry Bayly Browne R-VA
- George Douglas Wise D-VA
- Edward Carrington Venable D-VA
- Posey Green Lester D-VA
- Paul Carrington Edmunds D-VA
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall D-VA
- John Alexander Buchanan D-VA
- Henry St. George Tucker D-VA
- John Lockwood Wilson R-WA
- Robert Marion La Follette R-WI
- William Lyne Wilson D-WV
- James Monroe Jackson D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Richard Henry Clarke D-AL
- William Calvin Oates D-AL
- John Hollis Bankhead D-AL
- William Henderson Cate D-AR
- Thomas Chipman Mcrae D-AR
- John Jefferson De Haven R-CA
- Marion Biggs D-CA
- William W. Morrow R-CA
- William Vandever R-CA
- Hosea Townsend R-CO
- Frederick Miles R-CT
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL
- Robert Bullock D-FL
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- John Henry Gear R-IA
- Walter Ingalls Hayes D-IA
- Daniel Kerr R-IA
- Edwin Hurd Conger R-IA
- Joseph Rea Reed R-IA
- Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver R-IA
- Abner Taylor R-IL
- Frank Lawler D-IL
- William Ernest Mason R-IL
- George Everett Adams R-IL
- Albert Jarvis Hopkins R-IL
- Robert Roberts Hitt R-IL
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- Charles Augustus Hill R-IL
- Lewis Edwin Payson R-IL
- William Harrison Gest R-IL
- Scott Wike D-IL
- Jonathan Harvey Rowell R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- George Washington Smith R-IL
- Edmund Needham Morrill R-KS
- Edward Hogue Funston R-KS
- Harrison Kelley R-KS
- Samuel Ritter Peters R-KS
- James Bennett Mccreary D-KY
- John Henry Wilson R-KY
- Hugh Franklin Finley R-KY
- Hamilton Dudley Coleman R-LA
- Andrew Price D-LA
- Charles Jahleal Boatner D-LA
- Charles Sturtevant Randall R-MA
- Elijah Adams Morse R-MA
- Joseph Henry O'Neil D-MA
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks R-MA
- Henry Cabot Lodge R-MA
- William Cogswell R-MA
- Frederic Thomas Greenhalge R-MA
- John Wilson Candler R-MA
- Joseph Henry Walker R-MA
- Charles Addison Boutelle R-ME
- John Logan Chipman D-MI
- Charles Eugene Belknap R-MI
- Byron M. Cutcheon R-MI
- Frank Willis Wheeler R-MI
- Samuel Merritt Stephenson R-MI
- Mark Hill Dunnell R-MN
- Darwin Scott Hall R-MN
- Samuel Prather Snider R-MN
- Solomon Gilman Comstock R-MN
- Frederick Gottlieb Niedringhaus R-MO
- Nathan Frank R-MO
- William Medcalf Kinsey R-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- William Joel Stone D-MO
- William Henry Wade R-MO
- James Bright Morgan D-MS
- Thomas Clendinen Catchings D-MS
- Clarke Lewis D-MS
- Henry Clay Hansbrough R-ND
- Gilbert Lafayette Laws R-NE
- George Washington Emery Dorsey R-NE
- Alonzo Nute R-NH
- Orren Cheney Moore R-NH
- James Buchanan R-NJ
- Samuel Fowler D-NJ
- Charles Dyer Beckwith R-NJ
- Herman Lehlbach R-NJ
- Horace Franklin Bartine R-NV
- Felix Campbell D-NY
- Roswell Pettibone Flower D-NY
- Charles Junius Knapp R-NY
- John Henry Moffitt R-NY
- James Jerome Belden R-NY
- Sereno Elisha Payne R-NY
- Thomas Schmeck Flood R-NY
- John Raines R-NY
- Charles Simeon Baker R-NY
- John McCreath Farquhar R-NY
- William Grant Laidlaw R-NY
- Benjamin Butterworth R-OH
- Elihu Stephen Williams R-OH
- Samuel S. Yoder D-OH
- Melvin Morella Boothman R-OH
- Robert Patterson Kennedy R-OH
- William Elisha Haynes D-OH
- Albert Clifton Thompson R-OH
- Joseph Hodson Outhwaite D-OH
- Charles Preston Wickham R-OH
- Charles Henry Grosvenor R-OH
- Joseph Danner Taylor R-OH
- Binger Hermann R-OR
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- Smedley Darlington R-PA
- Marriott Brosius R-PA
- Joseph Augustine Scranton R-PA
- John Winebrenner Rife R-PA
- Myron Benjamin Wright R-PA
- John Dalzell R-PA
- Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA
- Charles Champlain Townsend R-PA
- William Constantine Culbertson R-PA
- Henry Joshua Spooner R-RI
- Warren Otis Arnold R-RI
- James Sproull Cothran D-SC
- William Hayne Perry D-SC
- John Alfred Pickler R-SD
- Oscar Sherman Gifford R-SD
- James Daniel Richardson D-TN
- William Harrison Martin D-TX
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- Silas Hare D-TX
- William Henry Crain D-TX
- Joseph Draper Sayers D-TX
- John Wolcott Stewart R-VT
- William Wallace Grout R-VT
- Isaac Whitbeck Van Schaick R-WI
- Charles Benjamin Clark R-WI
- Ormsby Brunson Thomas R-WI
- Nils Pederson Haugen R-WI
- Myron Hawley Mccord R-WI
- John Overton Pendleton D-WV
Did not vote
- John Van Mcduffie R-AL
- Lewis Porter Featherstone O-AR
- John Henry Rogers D-AR
- Thomas J. Geary D-CA
- William Edgar Simonds R-CT
- Washington Frederick Willcox D-CT
- Charles Addison Russell R-CT
- George Thomas Barnes D-GA
- Edward Retilla Hays R-IA
- Isaac S. Struble R-IA
- Willis Sweet R-ID
- Philip Sidney Post R-IL
- John Henry O'Neall D-IN
- Jason Brevoort Brown D-IN
- Thomas McLelland Browne R-IN
- Bishop Walden Perkins R-KS
- Erastus Johnson Turner R-KS
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY
- W. W. (William Worth) Dickerson D-KY
- Theodore Stark Wilkinson D-LA
- Rodney Wallace R-MA
- Francis Williams Rockwell R-MA
- Charles Hopper Gibson D-MD
- Harry Welles Rusk D-MD
- Barnes Compton D-MD
- Sydney Emanuel Mudd R-MD
- Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME
- Nelson Dingley Jr. R-ME
- Seth Llewellyn Milliken R-ME
- Robert Henry Whitelaw D-MO
- John Mills Allen D-MS
- Henry Plummer Cheatham R-NC
- John Morehead Brower R-NC
- John Steele Henderson D-NC
- Hamilton Glover Ewart R-NC
- James Laird R-NE
- Christopher Augustus Bergen R-NJ
- William Mcadoo D-NJ
- James Way Covert D-NY
- William Copeland Wallace R-NY
- Thomas Francis Magner D-NY
- Frank Thomas Fitzgerald D-NY
- John Adam Quackenbush R-NY
- Frederick Lansing R-NY
- David Wilber R-NY
- John Sigsbee Pindar D-NY
- Milton De Lano R-NY
- John Gilbert Sawyer R-NY
- George Ebbert Seney D-OH
- William Craig Cooper R-OH
- Jacob Joseph Pugsley R-OH
- Ezra Booth Taylor R-OH
- Henry Harrison Bingham R-PA
- Richard Vaux D-PA
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- John Edgar Reyburn R-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Charles Rollin Buckalew D-PA
- Levi Maish D-PA
- Charles Warren Stone R-PA
- Lewis Findlay Watson R-PA
- Samuel Dibble D-SC
- Thomas Ezekiel Miller R-SC
- Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN
- James Phelan D-TN
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- George Edwin Bowden R-VA
- Edmund Waddill Jr. R-VA
- John Mercer Langston R-VA
- William Henry Fitzhugh Lee D-VA
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell R-WI
- Charles Barwig D-WI
- George H. Brickner D-WI
- George Wesley Atkinson R-WV
- John Duffy Alderson D-WV
- Charles Brooks Smith R-WV
- Clarence Don Clark R-WY
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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